There really is no difference between running and jogging.

However, that being said, serious runners are sometimes insulted by being called “joggers.”

Over time, the word ‘joggers’ has come to symbolize someone who just does not take running very seriously. Maybe they only head out one day a week and never run very fast. Maybe then never enter a race.

Regardless, there does seem to be some sort of pecking order that puts someone called a jogger below the stature of a runner.

If you consider the ‘real’ difference between walking and running/jogging it’s easier to understand why to run or jog is virtually the same.

Officially, to walk(at least by Olympic race-walking standards)one foot must always be in contact with the ground. If that standard is not met, and in fact both feet are off the ground at one time, then you are considered to be running and not walking.

One of the real benefits of running is that for a brief moment in any one stride, both feet are off the ground and you are free from the gravitational pull of the earth.

Well, jogging falls within the same parameters. In order to jog at any speed, for a brief instant, both feet will be off the ground at the same time.

To me, that means there is no difference between a runner or jogger except the perception that some people have. Technically, they are the same.